Deuteronomy 15:1

Modern English Version

At the end of every seven years you shall grant a relinquishing of debts.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

If the people of the land bring merchandise or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also renounce the seventh year harvest and the full payment of every debt.

Exodus 21:2

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he will serve for six years, but in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years, each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me or incline their ear.

Deuteronomy 15:2

This is the manner of the relinquishing: Every creditor that has loaned anything to his neighbor shall relinquish it. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother, because it is called the Lord’s relinquishment.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin in you.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Tabernacles,